Thorsten Laude studied electrical engineering at Leibniz Universität Hannover with specialization on communication engineering and received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2013. In his diploma thesis "Bewegungsunschärfekompensation zur Verbesserung der Prädiktion in der skalierbaren Videocodierung" he developed a motion blur compensation algorithm for the scalable extension of HEVC. He joined InterDigital Communications for an internship in 2013. At InterDigital Communications, he intensified his research for the scalable extension of HEVC.

After graduating he joined Institut für Informationsverarbeitung at Leibniz Universität Hannover where he currently pursues a PhD. His research interests are video coding (with special focus on intra prediction, screen content coding and scalable video coding) and deep learning. He contributed to several standardization meetings for the next generation video coding standard "High Efficiency Video Coding" (HEVC) of the MPEG and VCEG "Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding" (JCT-VC). His paper Improved Inter-Layer Prediction for the Scalable Extensions of HEVC published at the Data Compression Conference (DCC) 2014 won the Lucy A. Mahjoubian Distinguished Publication Award sponsored by InterDigital Communications.

His current research interests are intra coding for HEVC, still image coding, and machine learning-based video encoder control.